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The Northeast Ohio Regional Fusion Center Overview

The need to develop and share information and intelligence across all levels of government has significantly changed over the last few years. The long-standing information sharing challenges among law enforcement agencies, public safety agencies, and the private sector are slowly disappearing. Yet, the need to identify, prevent, monitor, and respond to terrorist and criminal activities remains a significant need for the law enforcement, intelligence, public safety, and private sector communities.

Through the support, expertise, and knowledge of leaders at the City, County, State and Federal level, the Northeast Ohio Regional Fusion Center concept has become a reality. The development and exchange of intelligence is not easy. Sharing this data requires not only strong leadership, it also requires the commitment, dedication, and trust of a diverse group of men and women who believe in the power of collaboration.

The Fusion Center Concept is integral to the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) strategic initiative for information sharing. Fusion Centers are critical to the effective sharing of intelligence and information among federal, state and local government agencies and the public and private sectors. Communication horizontally and vertically with partners and stakeholders is achieved through an integrated network of state and local Fusion Centers.

DHS and DOJ define Fusion centers as a collaborative effort of two or more agencies that provide resources, expertise and/or information to the center with the goal of maximizing the ability to detect, prevent, apprehend and respond to criminal and terrorist activity. The intelligence component of a Fusion Center focuses on the intelligence process, where information is collected, integrated, evaluated, analyzed and disseminated. Non-traditional collectors of intelligence, such as public safety entities, the general public and private sector organizations possess important information that can be “fused” with law enforcement data in a Fusion Center to provide meaningful in formation and intelligence about threats and criminal activity.

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